A Gentle Woman

This article is about the 1969 film. For other uses, see Gentlewoman (disambiguation).
A Gentle Woman
French Poster
Une femme douce
Directed byRobert Bresson
Written byRobert Bresson
Based onA Gentle Creature
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Produced byMag Bodard
StarringDominique Sanda
Guy Frangin
Jeanne Lobre
CinematographyGhislain Cloquet
Edited byRaymond Lamy
Music byJean Wiener
Production
companies
  • Parc Film
  • Marianne Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • 28 August 1969 (1969-08-28) (France)[1]
Running time
88 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

A Gentle Woman (French: Une femme douce), also titled A Gentle Creature, is a 1969 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson.[2][3] It was Bresson's first film in colour and adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1876 short story "A Gentle Creature", moving the setting from 19th century Saint Petersburg to contemporary Paris.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Une femme douce (1968) Robert Bresson". Ciné-Ressources (in French). Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b Cunneen, Joseph (2004). Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 123 ff. ISBN 9780826416056.
  3. ^ a b Samuels, Charles Thomas. "Encountering Directors: Robert Bresson". Masters of Cinema. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010.